Responsible tourism as an agent of sustainable and socially-conscious development: reflections from the Italian case

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Musarò, Pierluigi

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2014-10-08T12:15:00Z

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2014-10-08T12:15:00Z

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2014

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1130-6149

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2254-4135

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http://hdl.handle.net/10234/105376

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Despite the variety of banalities that are often associated with trips and vacations as mass consumption,
the study of tourism – due to the commitment of social, economic, political and cultural
energy – remains one of the predominant inputs for understanding contemporary society and the new
social hierarchies that distinguish it. Tourism, which is increasingly seen as a process that has become
integral to social and cultural life, also plays an essential role in the social and spatial dialectic that
gives meaning to the places. Focusing tourism through the lens of «productive consumption» developed
by Cultural Studies, the paper moves from the assumption that responsible tourism can be analyzed
in the broader paradigm of relational goods to explore the role of responsible tourism as a
possible way of sustainable and responsible development.